<p>Me: “Daughter went to Wesleyan.”</p>
<p>Everyone: “Which one?”</p>
<p>Or, “I didn’t know she went to a girls’ school!”</p>
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<p>That’s Cal POLY Pomona. They are part of of the CSU system but they disdain the Cal State name.</p>
<p>“Everyone: “Which one?””</p>
<p>When my oldest sister went to Wesleyan, we got this a lot. Here in the Midwest, Illinois Wesleyan and Ohio Wesleyan are quite well known.</p>
<p>“one man’s crappy dorm room is another man’s freelance entomology internship”</p>
<p>This made my morning, lol. </p>
<p>I suppose dreadful cafeteria food could be the incentive to develope cooking skills…</p>
<p>“I’d agree with you if high school kids routinely got exposed to most of the subjects taught in college. But they don’t. Most kids coming out of high school haven’t had classes in philosophy, psychology, economics, sociology, business, the more obscure foreign languages, education, engineering, etc. And once they get to college, they tend to stick to their comfort zone and take classes in things they already know about. If you talk to highly educated Brits, you’ll see what problems can result. They rarely study anything outside their major field, so they are often embarrassingly ignorant about things close to, but not IN their major…like Ph.D.s in English who’ve never taken a philosophy course.”</p>
<p>Where I go the core curriculum is composed almost entirely of subjects that most would have encountered in High School. There is no philosophy, psychology, economics, sociology, business, foreign language, or education in the core curriculum. </p>
<p>Now, there are some positives to a core curriculum, but that’s not one.</p>
<p>I hadn’t a clue what philosophy was when I went to college, but at BC everybody had to take at least 2 classes in it. I’ve been teaching it part-time for almost 20 years now. Too many colleges’ cores have been watered down these days. It’s absurd to think of anybody getting through college without having been exposed to Plato, Shakespeare, and Freud.</p>
<p>"Dorms are shabby - silver lining is the kid will make sure they graduate in 4 years instead of sticking around! "</p>
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<p>Correct. I should probably wait until the coffee kicks in before posting. You’d think the Poly would distinguish the two schools more, but it doesn’t.</p>
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- never heard of upperclassmen staying in a dorm."</p>
<p>I would imagine that varies quite widely based on the campus and its housing situation, especially relative to what’s available in the community. At most of the LAC’s we visited, the % of students who lived on campus all four years was pretty darn close to 100%.</p>
<p>There’s both a California State Polytechnic University and a California Polytechnic State University. Both are often confused with Caltech. It’s also a bit frustrating when news articles refer to a professor as being from California State University.</p>
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<p>As a current Haverford student, I couldn’t agree with this more …</p>
<p>The next time I meet someone who says he/she went to Harvard, I’m going to ask if he/she cross-registered for any classes at Bryn Mawr while he/she was there.</p>
<p>Actual cloud: College doesn’t attract employment recruiters.
Silver lining: students intern at the school instead. Students don’t have to stress about the interview process or even miss classes.</p>
<p>Actual cloud: college is so small and unknown employer never heard of it.
Silver lining: You spend the first 5 minutes of an interview describing where you went to school, taking the edge off the interview. Then you find out the employer also went to a no-name.</p>